Tuesday, December 08, 2020

There are laws.

I don't know what you would call an office of the President-Elect, except "Office of the President-Elect."

As the President-Elect Joe Biden speaks to the county to prepare for the initiative to end the COVID-19 crisis, he should consider the importance of multi-language communication. He can't write Executive Orders yet, but, the law does require any and all healthcare information to be made available through any language currently used in the USA. His HHS Secretary needs to prepare the speeches available in multiple languages.

This initiative of providing information in multi-languages began with the HIV/AIDS crisis. There were entire communities left out of the information to prevent that virus and subsequent illness cue to language barriers. So, as the President-Elect prepares to lead to end the spread of SARS-CoV-2 his speeches should be made available in different languages to help stem the spread. Often those translations, if even on paper, are read by people of other countries and helps them carry out vital policies as well.

Public Law 88-277 (click here)

Eighty-eighth Congress of the United States of America 

AT THE SECTION SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the seventh day of January, on one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four 

An Act 

To promote the orderly transfer of the executive power in connection with the expiration of the term of office of a President and the Inauguration of a new President. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the “President Transition Act of 1963”

Sec. 3 (a) The Administrator of General Services, referred to hereafter in this Act as “the Administrator,” is authorized to provide, upon request, to each President-elect and each Vice President-elect, for use in connection with his preparations for the assumption of official duties as President or Vice President necessary services and facilities, including- 

 (1) Suitable office space appropriately equipped with furniture, furnishings, office machines and equipment, and office supplies as determined by the Administrator, after consultation with the President-elect, the Vice-President elect, or their designee provided for in subsection (e) of this section, at such place or places within the United States as the President-elect or Vice-President-elect shall designate; ...